Latest BBC News – Page 478
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NewsBBC comedy to cut 24% of staff
The BBC is to lose a quarter of staff from its comedy department in the corporation’s latest round of redundancies.
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NewsTwenty Twelve to return for second series
Twenty Twelve, the BBC4 sitcom that goes behind the scenes of the Olympics Deliverance team, has been recommissioned for a second series.
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NewsBBC backed on 'right-to-die' broadcast
Right-to-die campaigners have backed the BBC after it was accused of “acting like a cheerleader” for assisted suicide.
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NewsIndies call for a rethink in BBC nations strategy
Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish indies have called for a shake-up of the BBC’s nations commissioning process, claiming the system has added another tier of management and takes them further from those who hold the purse strings.
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NewsMacqueen and Singer win BBC commissions
Angus Macqueen and Henry Singer are to investigate the experience of the trapped Chilean miners and Wootton Bassett’s emergence as a symbol of servicemen killed in conflict, in films for the BBC.
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NewsHead of news at BBC Scotland departs
The head of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland is leaving to join the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Scotland.
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NewsWorld Service report offers "false hope"
The Foreign Affairs committee report on the World Service is unlikely to have any impact on funding for the BBC arm, insiders have indicated.
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NewsBlick: BBC2 is "our HBO"
The drama community should think of BBC2 as “our HBO”, according to Shadow Line writer Hugo Blick.
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NewsBBC news boss admits being wasteful
The BBC’s director of news has admitted that there has been times when an anchor has unnecessarily been sent to the scene of a big story.
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NewsDavid Jason returns to BBC comedy
David Jason is to star in a new sitcom for BBC1 – his first for the channel since Only Fools and Horses.
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NewsBBC Drama: spring 2011
VIDEO: Highlights of new drama coming to BBC2 including United, The Hour, The Shadow Line and The Night Watch as well as current series The Crimson Petal and the White.
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NewsWorld Service should be protected say MPs
The Foreign Affairs Committee has condemned the government’s move to cut BBC World Service funding by 16%, and called for the decision to be reversed.
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NewsRadio 1 fails to meet age targets
Radio 1 has failed to reduce the average age of its listeners at all, two years after the BBC Trust put forward its review.
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NewsCoalition formed to fight S4C cuts
A coalition of unions and campaigners has been formed to fight the government-imposed cuts being faced by S4C.
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NewsBBC Drama Writers Academy open for submissions
The BBC has opened its doors to budding screenwriters with the return of its Drama Writers Academy.
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NewsBBC 'to sell magazine portfolio for £100m'
The BBC’s magazine portfolio, including the Radio Times, is set to be sold for up to £100 million, with the private equity firm that owns thetrainline.com emerging as a frontrunner to win the bidding war, it has been claimed.
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NewsBBC drama pulled over legal row
A BBC production of classic 1950s novel Room At The Top had to be pulled from the schedule at the last minute due to a row over rights to the story.
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NewsSchlesinger to leave BBC comedy
Paul Schlesinger, the award-winning executive producer of BBC4 sitcom Twenty Twelve and Comic Relief, is to leave the corporation.
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NewsMiriam O'Reilly back on BBC1
Miriam O’Reilly, the woman who won an ageism industrial tribunal against the BBC, is to become co-host of BBC1 daytime’s Crimewatch Roadshow.
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News"Second class" travel for BBC boss
A BBC executive whose taxi bills are among the biggest at the corporation has revealed she has been using second class rail travel as she visits staff to discuss efficiencies.